Health
The big barriers to global vaccination: patent rights, national self-interest and the wealth gap – The Mandarin
It is clear that every nation’s interest is in universal vaccination. But this is not the trajectory we are on.
We will not be able to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us until the worlds population is mostly immune through vaccination or previous exposure to the disease.
A truly global vaccination campaign, however, would look very different from what we are seeing now. For example, as of January 20, many more people have been immunised in Israel (with a population less than 10 million) than in Africa and Latin America combined.
Notwithstanding recent questions about the effectiveness of the initial single…
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